Floresta isn't as well known as the big chain stores in Japan like Mister Donut or Krispy Kreme, but their "nature doughnuts" deserve all the attention they can get. As a company, Floresta strives to provide customers with healthy, yet satisfying ...

In the city of Qingdao, a new apartment complex is raising eyebrows. Some of the windows, it seems, aren't windows. They're paint. China's iFeng reports that on one side of the buildings, there are "false windows" that were painted to look like th...

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Fifteen men on a dead man's chest, Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of rum shochu! Wait, what? ! Pirates and alcoholic beverages have been synonymous since the 1700's and now, Science Fiction anime series Mouretsu Pirates gives it a Japanese twist with their...

Following the A-B blocks and C-D blocks, this third part of Treasure Festa 2013 Kobe 5 photo report introduces Hatsune Miku and other Vocaloid characters' latest figures including Rin&Len, Gumi, and IA.

It is no secret that Attack on Titan is one of this year's most successful series in Japan. But even in North America, the original manga by Hajime Isayama is dominating. The volume 1 English-translated paperback manga currently ranks #1 in Amazon...

She's 1/3 scale and costs about as much as a kidney on the black market Got $575 to spend on a figure of Homura? Azone has your back, then – they've got a new figure on pre-order that costs an arm and a leg.

A new instalment of the Idolm@ster franchise is headed to the PS3, this week's issue of Famitsu magazine has revealed. The new game, entitled Idolm@ster: One For All, is a simulation title that lets players — who play the role of an artiste manage...

This morning, Japanese TV network NHK aired an episode of "Professional—Style of Work," which gave us an inside look at the development of a new Pokémon title featuring Pikachu. This time, Pikachu won't be starring as a cute pet or your typical Po...

Monogatari Second Season – 16, 17 Filed under First Impressions, Monogatari Series by Takaii | 1 Comment 「しのぶタイム其ノ壹」 (Shinobu Taimu So no Ichi) "Shinobu Time Part One" After watching Sengoku turn into a completely out of control snake-aberration t...

Japan has refused to spy on Internet traffic for the NSA, offering the amazing excuse that it would be unconstitutional for them to so. According to Snowden-sourced documents passed to The Guardian, the NSA tried to get Japan to help it tap all tr...

The theme of the new Pikachu game is finally revealed! This new Pikachu game is a detective game and is expected to be released in 2015. The game is said to be developed for 2 years and in this game is set to feature a Blue Pikachu, which talks.

Slice of life centered around suspiciously tall lolis, Non Non Biyori, is evidently doing so well that it has earned an OVA in the middle of its ongoing TV run, and releases a few interesting statements as well.

With the live-action adaptation of Yomi Hirasaka's Haganai: I Don't Have Many Friends light novels now scheduled for February 1st, the feature's site has posted new images of Sayu Kubota as Kobato Hasegawa and Momoka Yamada as Maria Takayama.

28/10/2013: New Releases (28/10/2013) K-ON! , Bleach, Heaven's Memo Pad We may have been battered by high winds and left stranded in London following the MCM Comic Con at the weekend, but nothing gets between us and some new anime releases!

72nd volume of Eiichiro Oda's pirate series ships in Japan on Friday The 181th issue of Shueisha's Comics News digital magazine announced on Monday that once the 72nd volume of Eiichiro Oda's One Piece manga ships on Friday, the manga will have 30...

Petanko Mini: Sword Art Online Penguin Parade has commenced preorder for a new series for their new Petanko Mini (which is half the size of a Petanko figure) featuring the characters from the popular anime series Sword Art Online.

Square Enix's Play Art Kai brand is going to be releasing an absolutely gorgeous set of DC comics "Variant" figurines. Read Square Enix Have Made Some Of The Best DC Comics Figurines We've Seen Yet on Siliconera!

One of the great things about Guilty Gear as a fighting game is that it provides something for everybody, including playstyles. If you're not the type to chip away at opponents' health or get in their face with high-priority DP-alikes, there's alw...

"Pok&eacute;mon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened" Film Review By Brian Camp This article originally ran on otakuusamagazine. com On Saturday, October 19, 2013, Cartoon Network premiered the 16th Pok&eacute;mon movie, Pok&eacute;mon the ...

Super Sentai To Get Novel Treatment Starting With Shinkenger Announced today was that, like the Kamen Rider books that came out this year, Super Sentai will be getting novel adaptations, starting with Shinkenger next month.

You may have resisted the appeal of our future feline overlords so far, but if their internet popularity is any indication, total world domination can't be far off. If you don't want to be first against the wall with the dogs and dog-lovers, you m...

Sentai Filmworks has let loose with their listings for the release month of February 2014 and it definitely shows some interesting titles that people have been looking forward to. Of particular interest is that the first season of Hidamari Sketch...

'Strange+' Manga Getting Anime Adaptation Posted by Chris Beveridge October 28, 2013 at 07:30 PM There's no end to the number of manga series that can make the leap to anime and the latest one to get the nod is Strange+, a series from Verno Mikawa...